# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/basilides-the-epicurean
# Generated: 2026-08-14T07:35:15.183Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/basilides-the-epicurean"
name: "Basilides the Epicurean"
slug: "basilides-the-epicurean"
description: "Basilides was an Epicurean philosopher, who succeeded Dionysius of Lamptrai as the head of the Epicurean school at Athens. c. 205 BC. It is not certain who succeeded Basilides: Apollodorus is the next Epicurean leader we can be certain about, but there may have been at least one intermediate leader, and the name Thespis has been suggested. Barnes and Brunschwig suggested that Basilides of Tyre and Basilides the Epicurean could be the same Basilides."
tagline: "Ancient Greek philosopher"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "-250"
livingStatus: "UNKNOWN"
scores:
  popularity:           38.43
  momentum:             1.666666666666667
  historical:           7.870122666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%B0%D1%81%D0%B8%D0%BB%D1%96%D0%B4_(%D0%B5%D0%BF%D1%96%D0%BA%D1%83%D1%80%D0%B5%D1%94%D1%86%D1%8C)"
    title: "Василід (епікуреєць)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basilides_(epicuri)"
    title: "Basilides (epicuri)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basilides_the_Epicurean"
    title: "Basilides the Epicurean"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basileides_Tyroslainen"
    title: "Basileides Tyroslainen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basilide_(%C3%A9picurien)"
    title: "Basilide (épicurien)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basilide_(epicureo)"
    title: "Basilide (epicureo)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basilides%2C_o_Epicurista"
    title: "Basilides, o Epicurista"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%B0%D1%81%D0%B8%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%B4_(%D1%8D%D0%BF%D0%B8%D0%BA%D1%83%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%B5%D1%86)"
    title: "Василид (эпикуреец)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basileides_(epikurejec)"
    title: "Basileides (epikurejec)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2475901"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump